Nail-holder for hammers.



Patented May 27, I902. NTY.

HAMMERS.

P. E MGGI NAIL HOLDER FOR 4App1'1cation filed Nov. 21, 1901 (No Model.)

PATRKEKEN qiNTY UNiTn .1 i STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK E. MCGINTY, OF NEWVARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO \VILLIAM H.COLEMAN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

NAIL-HOLDER FOR HAMMERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,076, dated May 27,1902. Application filed November 21,1901. Serial No. 83,086. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- Figure 1 is a side view of a hammer and aBe it known that I, PATRICK E. MCGINTY, nail-holding device orattachment secured a citizen of the United States, residing atNewthereto, representing a nail held in its proper ark, in the county ofEssex and State of New position ready to be lightly driven into the 55Jersey, have invented certain new and usewood by means of the hammer.Fig. 2 is an ful Improvements in Nail-Holders for Hamend view of thedriving portion of the hammers; and I do hereby declare the followingmer with a face view of the nail-holding dcto be afull, clear, and exactdescription of the vice or attachment embodying the principlesinventiomsuch as will enable others skilled in of this invention. Fig. 3is a longitudinal 6o the art to which it appertains to make and verticalseetionof the driving portion of the use the same, reference being hadto the achammer, a portion of the handle to which said eompanyingdrawings, and to letters of 'refhead is attached, and the saidnail-holding erence marked thereon, which form a part of attachment ordevice, the said view illustratthis specification. ing one manner ofsecuring the said nail- I 5 This invention has reference toimproveholding attachment or device in its operative ments in hammers;and the invention relates position. Fig. 4 is a face view, Fig. 5 a sidemore particularly to a novel construction of view, and Fig. 6 a rearview, of the nail-holdnail-holding attachment or device which is ingattachment or device in its detached p0 to be applied to the hammer ofthe ordinary sition from the hammer, the said views show- 20construction now in use, the said attachment ing the said device on anenlarged scale. Fig. or device being made to receive the head of 7 is anend view of the driving-head of ahama nail and retaining it in theproper position mer and a nail-holding device or attachment for lightlydriving the sharp or pointed end of a slightly-modified form ofconstruction, of the nail into the wood before finally drivbut stillembodying the principles of this in- 7 5 2 5 ing the nail entirely intothe wood by means vention; and Fig. 8 is a longitudinal vertical of thedriving-head of the hammer in the section of the said parts representedin said usual manner. Fig. 7, the said View also representing the Theinvention has for its principal objects said parts in their operativeposition on the to provideasimple and a cheaply-constructed end of thehandle. o nail-holding attachment or device which can Similar charactersof reference are embe readily applied to any known form and ployed inall of the said above described construction of hammer, the device oratviews to indicate corresponding parts. tachment having this specialadvantage that In the said drawings the reference chara nail can be heldin the proper position prior acter 1 indicates the handle, and 2 theham- 5 to driving the same home, and the hammer mer-head, the latterbeing provided with the and nail can both be manipulated at one timeusual form of driving-shank 3 and an eye or and in such places where acarpenter cannot receiving member 4, in which the end 5 of use bothhands, as heretofore, one hand for the handle is secured in the usualmanner. holding the nail and the other hand for swing The saidnail-holding device or attachment 0 o ing the hammer. I is indicated bythe reference character 6, and

The said invention therefore consists in the it consists, essentially,of a main body or facenovel construction of nail-holding device or plate7, which is made with an opening or attachment hereinafter more fullyset forth; slot 8, extending from the one side of the said and,furthermore, this invention consists in face-plate to a point near theopposite side 5 5 the several novel arrangements and combinathereof, asillustrated more particularly in tions of the various parts, all ofwhich will Figs. 2, 4, and 7 of the drawings. The said be described indetail in the accompanying slot or opening 8 is made much Wider at thespecification and then finally embodied in the bottom of the saidface-plate 7, the said enclauses of the claim. larged or wider portion,which is indicated by we 50 The invention is clearly illustrated in thethe reference character 9, being formed by a accompanying drawings, inwhichpair of shoulders 10, which when a nail 11isinserted in the slot oropening are fitted directly over the marginal edges of the head of thesaid nail, and thereby hold or retain the said nail in its properposition in the said device or attachment 6, as will be clearlyunderstood. In order that the said nail 11 maybe more securely retainedin its fixed position in the said slot or opening 8, the said slot oropening has its marginal edges 12 and 13 made to extend in a downwarddirection toward the lower edge 14: of the said faceplate 7, as shown,the said edges being arranged at dilferent angles, so that said edges,

if prolonged, would meet, whereby the entrance to said slot or opening 8is much wider than the {end 15 of the said slot or opening and wherebywhen the nail is inserted the said end 15 will securely engage the bodyof the nail just below its head and will retain the said nail in a fixedposition in alinement with the central longitudinal axis of thedriving-shank 3 for driving the sharp end of the nail into the wood.After the nail has been fixed in the wood a movement of the hammer in alateral direction will disengage the said holding device or attachment 6from the nail.

To securely fix the said nail-holding device or attachment in itsoperative position to the hammer-head 2, the means illustrated moreparticularly in Figs. 1 to 6, inclusive, is preferably employed. Thismeans consists, essentially, of arearwardly-extending portion or member16, which is provided with a forwardly-extending plate or holding-arm17, as illustrated. This plate or arm 17 is of such thickness and widththat it can be securely arranged against the inner surface of the eye orreceiving member 4 of the hammer-head, as illustrated in Fig. 3 of thedrawings, and when the end portion 5 of the handle is driven into saideye 4 then the said plate or arm 17 will be securely wedged in itsoperative position between the said end portion of the handle and aportion of the inner surface of the said eye 4, substantially asillustrated. Of course it will be understood that the said opening orslot 8 may be differently arranged in the said face-plate 7, and thecomplete nailholding device or attachment 6 may be secured at any sideof the hammer-head, if desired.

Instead of providing the nail-holding device or attachment with theholding-arm or plate 17, the said arm or plate and therearwardly-extending portion or member 16 may be dispensed with, inwhich case the said device is made as indicated in Figs. 7 and 8 of thedrawings. In that case the said faceplate 7 is made with one or moreperforations or holes 18, the eye portion of the hammerhead beingprovided with correspondinglyarranged holes or perforations 19, asillustrated in said Fig. 8, and in which can be arranged screws or pins20 for securely fixing the said nail-holding device or attachment in itsoperative position.

From the above description of the present invention it will be obviousthat a simply-constructed and efiicient device or attachment for thepurposes stated has been produced which can be easily and quicklyappplied in position on any well-known construction and form of hammer.

I am aware that some changes may be made in the arrangements andcombinations of the various parts of the device, as well as in thedetails of the construction thereof. Hence I do not limit this inventionto the exact arrangements and combinations of the parts as described inthe previous specification and as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings,nor do I confine myself to the exact details of theconstruction thereof. I

Having thus described my invention, wha I claim is- 1 1. A device forholding nails to hammerheads, comprising, a main body or face-plate, arearwardly-extending member 16 on said body and a holding-arm 17 on saidmember 16 adapted to be arranged in the receiving-eye of the hammer-headand held between one of the inner surfaces of said eye and a portion ofthe inserted hammer-handle, for securing said device in position againstthe hammer-head, the said main body or face-plate being provided with anail-receiving opening,said opening being wider at the bottom than atits outer edges for retaining a nail in position, substantially as andfor the purposes set forth.

2. A device for holding nails to hammerheads, comprising, a main body orface-plate, a rearwardly-extending member 16 on said body and aholding-arm 17 on said member 16 adapted to be arranged in thereceiving-eye of the hammer-head and held between one of the innersurfaces of said eye and a portion of the inserted hammer-handle,forsecuring said device in position against the hammer-head, the said mainbody or face-plate being provided with a nail-receiving opening, and apair of shoulders, said shoulders forming a wide opening for thereception of the head of the nail, and a narrow open portion in whichthe shank of the nail is fitted, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

3. A device for holding nails to hammerheads, comprising, a main body orface-plate, a rearwardly-extending member 16 on said main body and aholding-arm 17 on said member 16 adapted to be arranged in thereceiving-eye of the hammer-head and held between one of the innersurfaces of said eye and a portion of the inserted hammer-handle, forsecuring said device in position against the hammer-head, the said mainbody being provided with a nail-receiving opening having marginal edges12 and 13 arranged at different inclinations to each other to provide awide entrance for the nail and a narrow holding portion at the end ofsaid opening, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. A device for holding nails to hammerheads, comprising, a main body orface-plate, a rearwardly-extending member 16 on said IOC main body and aholding-arm 17 on said member 16 adapted to be arranged in thereceiving-eye of the hammer-head and held between one of the innersurfaces of said eye and a portion of the inserted hammer-handle, forsecuring said device in position against the hammer-head, the said mainbody being provided with a nail-receiving opening having marginal edges12 and 13 arranged at difierent inclinations to each other to provide awide entrance for the nail and a narrow holding portion at the end ofsaid opening, and a pair of shoulders, forming a wide open portion forthe reception of the head of the nail and a narrow open portion in whichthe shank of the nail is fitted, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

5. A device for holding nails to hammerheads, comprising, a main body orface-plate, means for securing said main body or faceplate in positionagainst a portion of the hammer-head, the said main body being providedwith a nail-receivin g opening having a pair of marginal edges arrangedat different inclinations to each other to provide a wide entrance forthe nail and a narrow holding portion at the end of said opening, butthe angles of inclination of said marginal edges both being in an upwarddirection toward the hammerhead, when said nai1-holding device is inposition against the said hammer-head, whereby the narrownail-holdingportionis lower than the wide receiving-entrance to hold, the insertednail against accidental lateral displacement, substantially as and forthe purposes set forth.

6. A device for holding "nails to hammerheads, comprising, a main bodyor face-plate, means for securing said main body or faceplate inposition against a portion of the hammer-head, the said main body beingprovided with a nail-receiving opening having a pair of marginal edgesarranged at difierent inclinations to each other to provide a Wideentrance for the nail and a narrow holding por* tion at the end of saidopening, but the angles of inclination of said marginal edges be ingboth in an upward direction toward the hammer-head, when saidnail-holding device is in position against the said hammer-head, wherebythe narrow nail-holding portion is lower than the widereceiving-entrance to hold the inserted nail against accidental lateraldisplacement, and a pair of correspondingly-inclining shoulders formingawide open portion for the reception of the head of the nail,substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereuntoset myhand this 19th day of November, 1901.

PATRICK E. MCGINTY.

Witnesses:

FREDK. C. FRAENTZEL, WILMIA B. FRAENTZEL.

